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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.

Dick Cavett

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Amount Limitation Pressure Reading Subject Wrong
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.

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